{"id":87422,"date":"2026-04-06T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87422"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:07:14","slug":"striking-doctors-cost-nhs-3bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/striking-doctors-cost-nhs-3bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking doctors cost NHS \u00a33bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20gImc.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=1408&amp;y=416&amp;s=180&amp;d=180\" alt=\"Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, began walkouts over pay three years ago - Owen Humphreys\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strikes\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/junior-doctors-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">by junior doctors<\/a> have cost the taxpayer at least \u00a33bn, with no end in sight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/striking-doctors-cost-nhs-3bn\/ar-AA20gX69?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d3f5a873ca4cc589962b3996183a25&amp;ei=35\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Strikes\u00a0by junior doctors have cost the taxpayer at least \u00a33bn, with no end in sight. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/starmer-Kier.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87423,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87422\/revisions\/87423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}